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There is a special corps of infantry, field and garrison artillery, for the sland of Bornholm. The abolition of the Copenhagen defences on the land side and of several old coastal sea forts was recommended in January, 1920. Denmaik is inaugurating a FlyiDg Corps.

Infantry and mounted troops are armed with the Krag-Jorgensen 8 mm. rifle or carbine, field artillery with a Krupp gun, firing a 14*88 pound shell.

About 13,000 recruits are trained annually. The military budget for 1920-21 was 17,200,000 kroner.

The Danish fleet is maintained for purposes of coast-defence. It consists of four monitors, Peder Shram, Olfert Fischer, Herluf Trolle, and Niels Juels each carrying a pair of 9 4-inch and 4 6-inch guns; a smaller monitor, Skjold (launched 1896), with one 9 - 4 and three 4 7-inch guns ; 2 old cruisers, Hejmdal and Oejser, used for training purposes, 5 mine- layers, one sloop (ex-British Asphodel), 20 first-class torpedo boats ; 14 submarines.

Production and Industry.

The soil of Denmark is greatly subdivided, owing partly to the state of the law, which interdicts the union of small farms into larger estates, but encourages, in various ways, the parcelling out of landed property, and leaves the tenant entire control of his land so long as the rent is paid.

Of the total area of Denmark 80 per cent, is productive ; about one sixth of the unproductive area is peat bogs. Of the productive area 6 per cent, is forest, and of the remainder less than one half is arable, and the remainder pasture and meadows. The acreage and production of the chief crops for two years were as follows : —

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Area

Production

Crops

1919 1920

1919

latt

Acres Acres

Tons 161,200 378,700 533,900 690,700

Tons

Wheat Rye. Barley Oats ....

124,496 518,965 568,766 966,813

156,405

525,512

596,292

1,012,787

189,000 319,700 512,700 684,100

Mixed grain Potatoes

581,642 225,597

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379,000 1,444,800

349,100

On July 15, 1920, there were in Denmark proper 563,467 horses, 2,286,408head of cattle, 504,241 sheep, 1,007,861 swine, and 13,997,015 hens.

According to statistics collected on May 26, 1914, there were 82,442 industrial factories and shops in Denmark, employing altogether 346,000 persons, of whom 229,000 were skilled labourers. Of the total establish- ments 15,400 factories used mechanical power. In 1919 there were in Den- mark 12 distilleries (Copenhagen 5), whose output of brandy reduced to 100 s amounted to 4,490,000 litres. In 1919 there were produced 1,283,000 litres of excisable beer, and 1,091,000 litres small beer, not excisable. In the same year 135,220 tons of beet sugar were produced at 9 sugar factories, and 39,640 tons of margarine were manufactured at 55 factories.

In the Danish fisheries the total value of the fish caught was, in 1916, 3,210,694*.; 1917, 1,953,327*.; 1918, 2,318,866*.; 1919, 3,006,222*. The fleet in 1919 consisted of 15,422 boats.